Vt. is extremely gun friendly, but after a number of recent suicides there is discussion of a some sort of "responsibility" clause pertaining to firearms owners. "All firearms would require locks/safes"
We haven't heard the wording yet, but the example I have heard is "they dont want someone to be able to wander into your home and access and/or kill themselves with your firearm."
So, the solution to the suicide issue is to require the gun to be locked? So that you REALLY, REALLY need to want to die in order to go to all the trouble of grabbing your keyring.
And either I'm interpreting your post wrong or there is now a Burglar Rights movement in VT concerned with the well-being of despondent criminals?